34.3526, FYI: Public defense 1 December: “White Flag Typography”

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Subject: 34.3526, FYI: Public defense 1 December: “White Flag Typography”

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Date: 20-Nov-2023
From: Sophia Burnett [sophia.burnett at cyu.fr]
Subject: Public defense 1 December: “White Flag Typography”


I am pleased to announce the public defense of my doctoral thesis in
Language Sciences titled “White Flag Typography”. The defense will
take place on Friday, December 1st, at 9 am in the Salle des Thèses -
CY Cergy Paris University, Chênes 2 Site, 33 Boulevard du Port, 95011
Cergy-Pontoise cedex, France.

Examining Committee :
Julien Longhi, Professeur des universités (CY Cergy Paris Université),
Directeur,
Élise Mignot, Professeur des universités (Paris Sorbonne), Présidente,
Chris Smith, Maître de conférences HDR (Université de Caen),
Rapportrice,
Jürgen Spitzmüller, Professeur des universités (Universität Wien),
Rapporteur,
Catherine Marshall, Professeur des universités (CY Cergy Paris
Université),
Julie Neveux, Maître de conférences (Paris Sorbonne), Examinatrice

Abstract
White Flag Typography proposes a study of non-standard minuscule use
(e.g., following a full-stop in Latin script languages, or when used
for the 1SG in English: <i>); the thesis being that they are deployed
in Computer Mediated Communications by social actors for their
attenuative effects in the absence of universal non-lexical markers.
Non-lexical markers for emphasis abound; all caps, underlining,
italics, exclamation marks—hence we posit that social media users,
especially in the English language which has a small script inventory,
only one 1SG, no speech levels, and zero diacritics, are implementing
attenuative variation to pragmatic ends. This thesis analyses the
phenomenon using qualitative and quantitative methods, and adopts a
usage, not user based social stratification in order to propose a
taxonomy of six different usages under the novel term White Flag
Typography. Each of these ‘taxon’ is analysed in separate chapters to
reveal their idiosyncrasies: in-grouping indexicality, aural
implicature, sociophonetic enregisterment, visual iconicity,
syntactic/semantic interface disruption, and possible reflective
function impairment marking.

Keywords: Discourse analysis ; sociophonetics ; computer mediated
communication; metapragmatics; cognitive linguistics ; linguistic
anthropology

For the preparation of the traditional post-defense ‘pot’, kindly
inform me via email of your attendance.

Sincerely,
Sophia Burnett
sophia.burnett at cyu.fr

Linguistic Field(s): Text/Corpus Linguistics




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